Lead Software Engineer– Quality and Test Engineering

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer – Quality and Test Engineering (CTO)

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) group is responsible for Agile, Architecture, Services, Product Development and Cloud, Engineering, and Test Engineering, Site Reliability, as well as training and processes to enable the Wells Fargo Technology organization and the company to achieve this transformation.

Quality and Test Engineering organization enables critical test engineering product development to enable the Technology organization to achieve transformation. The function is positioned to build, engineer and evangelize Test Engineering products for the Technology organization.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex technology initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact
• Act as a key participant in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering complex and large-scale technology solutions for technology engineering disciplines
• Design, code, test, debug, and document for projects and programs
• Review and analyze complex, large-scale technology solutions for tactical and strategic business objectives, enterprise technological environment, and technical challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors, including intangibles or unprecedented technical factors
• Make decisions in developing standard and companywide best practices for engineering and technology solutions requiring understanding of industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals
• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a peer mentor

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong experience in Software engineering and product development- Key Technologies micro services / web services using spring boot or experience in building Micro Front End Applications
• Front development with ReactJS or Angular JavaScript, NodeJS
• DevOps Knowledge to deploy the container images through enterprise pipeline
• Knowledge on GitHub Actions / Harness /Kafka Messaging service
• Strong programming skills (example data structures)
• Working experience in could environment like PCF/ Azure/ GCP with exposure to scaled deployments using Terraform
• Working experience in Docker, Kubernetes and Helm charts
• Experience in Azure services like AKS, Storage Accounts, Service Bus and Azure data bases
• Experienced and well versed in Agile and Waterfall project management practices, good exposure to tools like JIRA, Microfocus ALM and Confluence for test lifecycle management
• Experience designing and implementing APIs, including deep understanding of REST, SOAP, HTTP etc.
• Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory, Sonar etc.
• Strong experience with web services (JSON, XML, REST, SOAP, etc.) and Spring Framework.
• Knowledge of end-to-end DevSecOps automation with CI and CD pipelines designing, implementing or using quality gates.
• Nice to have skills – UI / UX and Data visualization using JQuery / High Charts and building Enterprise-wide Portal
• Nice to have skills on Gen AI, developing Agentic AI.
• Additional skills on IBM Rational Suite, NetOcean and Parasoft are nice to have

Job Expectations:

• Comfortable working in an Agile software delivery environment.
• Desire to collaborate and work closely cross-functional teams using the product.
• Working closely with multiple technology teams to understand their requirements and deliver solutions which will help Development teams in organization to automate their testing and deliver quality products.
• Strong programming experience in Java
• Strong experience in JavaScript, NodeJS, React.
• Strong experience using NoSQL and SQL databases.
• Experience creating and deploying microservices based applications.
• Experience building, deploying or supporting applications in public or private cloud.
• Designing, creating and maintaining test frameworks.
• Experience using Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, Maven/Gradle.
• Experience using SOAPUI, SOATest, POSTMAN.
• Strong experience with web services (JSON, XML, REST, SOAP, etc.) and Spring Framework.
• Learning, adapting and implementing new concepts, technologies and improvements.
• Design and execute strategic goals and short-term tactical plans for managing and maintaining test engineering platforms, Hybrid frameworks that incorporate multiple test products for ‘End to End’ testing
• Strong Technical Leadership & Engineering solution development- Provide expertise, direction, and assistance to junior engineers and inputs towards strategy & testing processes – Shift Left Philosophy, BDD & TDD
• Strong experience in test product ownership and product roadmaps including research, adoption & migration
• Experience of cloud migration of applications/tools and Azure/GCP certification will be an added advantage
• Evaluation of latest tools and technology and onboarding them to improve productivity.
• Technology Mentoring to meet the overall Efficiency & Effectiveness objectives of the organization – This includes coaching junior engineers and providing technical design and architecture guidance for initiatives
• Plan, Consult, negotiate and manage deliverables of the business & technology requirements
• Strong interpersonal and consultative skills
• Ability to conduct research into emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products as required
• Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language
• Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Provide consultation on the use of re-engineering techniques to improve process performance and improvements for greater efficiencies.
• Knowledge on Dockers and Kubernetes are added advantage
• Knowledge on MongoDB is added advantage
• Knowledge on TDD, BDD, Cucumber methodologies
• Knowledge on Test automation tools like selenium, Playwright, Karate, Load Runner, Blazemeter an added advantage
• Experience with IBM Red Hat technologies (e.g., OpenShift) is a plus or Knowledge of IBM Red Hat platforms
  Experience with Azure Policies for governance and compliance
  Experience with cloud migration strategies
• Cloud experience (cloud architecture, cloud security, cloud migration)
• knowledge of Observability and monitoring logs via Splunk, Elastic search etc.

Additional skills on IBM Rational Suite , NetOcean and Parasoft are nice to have

Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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